Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — Logic. [ARTICLE]

Logic.

Harper's Magazine for February. Naming a horse is sometimes fully as diffieult as naming a baby, although the groom of a well-known New-Yorker did not find it soothe other day. Mr. Johnson had a valuable horse which he had called Ajax, and only recently was able to buy an excellent mate for it. What to call it was the problem, and in his aiixiety to discover just the right name several days went by. At last, he went to the stable? one day and discovered that his groom had solved the difficulty for him. The word “Ajax” was painted over the stall of the older horse, and over that of the new-comer appeared, in large chalk letters, “Bjax.” - —r